I have just installed SL 3.5. When I tried to emerge fetchmail, I got the error that com_err, ss and e2fsprogs blockthe installation. Actually, these dependencies block almost every package I want to emerge, for example emacs and many more.I can't remove them, since they are needed also to launch wget, and I apparently can't upgrade them via emerge.Is there any safe solution to remove these blocks?

I've receintly become a fan of enlightenment. And I really want e17 on Sabayon 3.5 I was having problems with the easy_e17.sh script so I thought I'd try a learning experience. ( I had an extra Sabayon 3.5 installation just sitting there on another partition ever since I tried to update "world" with equo... It booted. And if I typed startx, it gave me a working kde desktop. But I'd never bothered to tweak all my personal preference settings. And hadn't yet done the work of setting up my real user account...) It was a perfect test installation.

Until I had it down to three blocking packages that were all blocking the same lib... I didn't like the sound of their names. But this install was already useless if I didn't get e17 working so I unmerged these last three. Finally it looked like I'd be able to... but when I tried to emerge anything emerge kept crashing while downloading...

OK this was almost expected. I took my Sabayon 3.5 x86 installation dvd and reinstalled a "core" system in an effort get enlightenment in before anything was installed that conflicted with it... I updated emerge again, added the enlightenment overlay and tried

again... only now it doesn't find the entrance package... Since I think that's just e's answer to kdm (and I'm a startx user) I simply went with: